Dear Diary
Dear Diary
This self-titled release from DEAR DIARY is one of those archive releases from Eonian Records which is based here in the US. DEAR DIARY was a Chicago-area band who playted together back in the early 1990s and recorded a couple cassette-only releases if my memory serves me right. I had previously known about the band, as a friend turned me on to the cassettes a few years back. DEAR DIARY had the look and the music, well, it was pretty darn impressive for a "local bar band". It is a mystery of sorts they never got a major label deal. Basically they arrived too late in the game like so many other "hair bands" of the day. This collection of ten tracks, with proper production, could have put these guys in the same league as any of their major label counterparts of the day. For an idea of their sound, Id compare them to a more refined JAILHOUSE or even the more commercial side of HEAVENS EDGE, and maybe even throw in a little bit of early EYES. The band exudes class in their arrangements and execution and Jeff Evans was a cut above the average "local band" vocalists of the day.